'17 Specials & '18 Midterms Thread

[RJKarl]

Do they have numbers on what percentage of late registrations actually vote?

 

[Deacon923]

Is that allowed? I briefly discussed that idea with someone, and they thought maybe you couldn't do it on public transit.

i can't imagine that it is a problem to hand out government-issued voter registration forms on a government-owned conveyance.

 

[DeacHead]

I think you can yell almost whatever you want on a bus.

Including "Thank you".

 

[PhDeac]

[h=1]'Mostly false:' Politifact vets 9 Rick Scott ads, finds all 9 are false[/h]
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/new...bill-nelson-scott-maxwell-20180928-story.html


If I told you there were lies in politics, it would probably shock you about as much as if I told you there’s water in the ocean.
This campaign season, however, we’re seeing something more extreme — falsehoods in nine of the nine Rick Scott ads vetted by the Pulitizer Prize-winning fact-checkers at Politifact.
Yes, nine out of nine.
It’s almost impressive, yet hardly surprising, as Scott has used lies to distract from his own record every step of his political career.

 

[PhDeac]

Another positive poll for Gillum, but that's not the big story.


The Florida Chamber of Commerce (who recently endorsed DeSantis) poll shows strong support for Andrew Gillum's corporate tax plan even among Republicans.


"One of the policy proposals DeSantis has hammered Gillum on – the latter’s plan to raise the corporate income tax from 5.5 percent to 7.75 percent to raised $1 billion in funding for public education – was supported by a supermajority of Florida voters.

Overall, two-thirds of voters approved of the plan and 28 percent were opposed. It was most popular among registered Democrats, who favored it by an 85-11 percent margin, while NPA’s were in favor 71-27 percent and a plurality of Republicans also gave it the green light, 48-44 percent."


Good down ballot results as well.


http://floridapolitics.com/archives...w-gillum-holds-6-point-lead-over-ron-desantis

 

[Gooner]

The GOP lying to try to win an election? Say it ain’t so.

 

[avalon]

 

[dot com]

You can still sign up for elections a month away?

 

[Lectro]

[h=1]'Mostly false:' Politifact vets 9 Rick Scott ads, finds all 9 are false[/h]
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/new...bill-nelson-scott-maxwell-20180928-story.html


If I told you there were lies in politics, it would probably shock you about as much as if I told you there’s water in the ocean.
This campaign season, however, we’re seeing something more extreme — falsehoods in nine of the nine Rick Scott ads vetted by the Pulitizer Prize-winning fact-checkers at Politifact.
Yes, nine out of nine.
It’s almost impressive, yet hardly surprising, as Scott has used lies to distract from his own record every step of his political career.

Politifact? Hahahahahahahaha

Democratic Subsidiary.

 

[Lectro]

Politifact is run by the arch leftist rag The Tampa Bay Times

It is a leftwing media tool right down to the Orwellian name.

 

[Lectro]

The Democrats lying to try to win an election? Say it ain’t so.

Desantis is up by 10 points easy

 

[avalon]

You can still sign up for elections a month away?

I assume they are looking at running in post-2018 elections.

 

[WFFaithful]

Desantis is up by 10 points easy

Probably 15, but let's not get greedy.

 

[RJKarl]

Desantis is up by 43%...or down 5%...

 

[SC DEAC]

Lectro on his knees again , slurping up right wingnuts.

 

[PhDeac]

I assume they are looking at running in post-2018 elections.

Yeah. There are plenty of 2019 primaries coming up in the next 9 months or so. The filing deadline for city elections here is in less than 4 months.

 

[Newenglanddeac]

 

[Newenglanddeac]

Democrats planning to examine Trump’s tax returns after the midterms

A nearly 100-year-old statute allows the chairmen of Congress’ tax committees to look at anyone’s returns.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/29/trumps-tax-returns-midterms-democrats-853456

 

[avalon]

Republicans keep trying to make ActBlue, the entity that facilitates grassroots donations directly to candidates, into some sort of scary dark money group.

House GOP super PAC cuts off support for Bishop, Coffman

“CLF will continue to run strong field operations in these districts and will continue to conduct polling and evaluate races across the country as we do everything we can to protect the Republican majority,” said Courtney Alexander, a spokeswoman for the group.

There is not complete agreement in the party, however, about Coffman’s prospects. Following the super PAC’s announcement, the National Republican Congressional Committee said it would add $600,000 to its TV reservation in the district, according to a person familiar.

It's interesting to see which districts the NRCC is defending vs. the CLF. (For example, the NRCC is supporting Comstock in VA-10, the CLF is not.)

More on MI-08:

 

[61raddeac]